Estimation of current plate motions in Papua New Guinea from Global Positioning System observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 12181-12203

  Tregoning, Paul ^a   Lambeck, Kurt ^a   Stolz, Art ^b   Morgan, Peter ^c   McClusky, Simon C ^d   Van Der Beek, Peter ^a   McQueen, Herbert ^a   Jackson, Russell J ^e   Little, Rodney P ^e   Laing, Alex ^f   Murphy, Brian ^g  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of New Sourth Wales   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Papua New Guinea)

^f National Mapping Bureau   (Papua New Guinea)

^g Australian Surv/Land Info Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONICS;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0006990944     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb03676     Document Type: Article

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